GUEST COLUMN: Common Core handwriting now on wall

9:15 PM,
Sep. 14, 2013

Written by

King Jamison

Long ago, conclusions of consequence were interpreted from the way the guts of a slaughtered animal felt and looked. Everything in nature contained a spirit that advised action. A voice from a burning bush gave Moses his answer, "I come as envoy from him whose name is I am!"

Perhaps the most famous and dramatic interpreter of signs was the prophet, Daniel. Belshazzar, king of Babylon, observed a hand, writing on a wall a coded message which Daniel translated: "You are finished, weighed in the balances and found lacking!" It gave to posterity the saying, "The handwriting is on the wall!" The ...